Ep. 406: 76 Days Adrift at Sea in a Life Raft Revisited - Steve Callahan
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2018
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
The story that's so incredible it deserves a second listen. All the way back in episode 217, Steve joined us to recount his adventure of survival.
An avid sailor, naval architect and New York Times best-selling author, Steve Callahan designed and built his 21' sloop the Napolean Solo to sail it across the Atlantic Ocean from Newport, RI to England with plans to compete in a regatta. Once underway in the race, Steve experienced issues with the boat and was forced to drop out. Once repairs were made, he continued on his way only to be stopped in his tracks in the middle of the ocean when his sailboat was struck and began to sink.
Listen is as Steve recounts his 76 day journey across the Atlantic in his life raft with only his ditch kit and a small spear gun with him.
Be sure to click on the book link below to get his New York Times best-selling book: "Adrift: 76 Days Lost at Sea" to dig deeper into his amazing story!
The Book: Adrift: 76 Days Lost at Sea
Sea Website: http://www.stevencallahan.net/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | And then, boom, this was like this huge, it seemed like this huge crash, and, you know, just water just coming, just flowing in. |
| 0:19.6 | And I thought, oh, I'm screwed. |
| 0:23.1 | You're listening to the Adventure Sports podcast, brought to you by 180 Tech. |
| 0:27.5 | We talk with adventurers from around the globe to bring you the inspiration and motivation you need to get started in the outdoors or to keep you moving if you're already there. |
| 0:41.2 | Welcome back to another episode of the Adventure Sports podcast. This is Travis. |
| 0:47.2 | On the line with me today is Steve Callahan. If you guys haven't heard of Steve Callahan, |
| 0:53.2 | this guy is an experienced sailor, a naval architect. He's done a ton in sailing. |
| 0:58.9 | And back when he was a young man, he had decided to set out on a trip out to over to England and then down south to join a race. And Steve found |
| 1:05.7 | himself off the coast of Africa floating adrift, and he wrote a book about it. |
| 1:12.5 | And I want to talk to him today about that and let him tell you his story about those 76 days |
| 1:18.8 | and a life raft on the Atlantic Ocean. |
| 1:21.2 | So first of all, Steve, welcome to the show. |
| 1:23.9 | Thanks. |
| 1:24.3 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:25.2 | Yeah, good to have you. |
| 1:26.4 | So let's back up a little bit. I kind of alluded to what we're going to be talking about, but I also mentioned you being a naval architect and having quite a bit of a sailing experience. So can you do me a favor and go back into your background a little bit and just kind of give us a taste of how you got started in sailing |
| 1:44.4 | and fell in love with it. Yeah, I, well, I started when I was, I don't know, 11 or 12 or something like |
| 1:51.5 | that. My Boy Scout Master actually kind of taught me how to sail. He was kind of a sailing mentor, |
| 1:56.0 | and I ended up sailing with him for years and years. |
| 2:04.3 | Just from really small boats, basically. |
| 2:08.0 | I had a lot of interest that I've always had a lot of interest in small boats. |
| 2:12.3 | And like Napoleon Solo, this little boat that I built across the Atlantic with a small boat. |
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